Sherman-Palladino explained Sookie’s absence from the story to TVLine on Monday, blaming McCarthy’s busy schedule shooting Ghostbusters. “She’s really f–ing busy, but the thing I have said [to her team] is, ‘Look, if Melissa is available and has an afternoon free, I’ll write her a scene,” she said. “Melissa was one of us. If she has a spare moment to run over [to the set]—even if for just a cameo—we would be totally game. And if it’s a last-minute thing, I would write her in and we would figure it out. That’s the way we left it.”

While fans have been speculating on reasons for McCarthy’s absence for a while, with the “too busy” excuse being accepted by many as justification, Sookie herself took to Twitter yesterday to clear the air, revealing that she wasn’t actually ever asked to join the revival cast.

Thanks for the invite, but sadly no one asked me or Sookie to come back to Stars Hollow. Wish them all the best!! https://t.co/II2Atug4wx

It seems like there’s been a terrible miscommunication here, and that either Sherman-Palladino is twisting the truth a little to escape the wrath of Sookie fans, or McCarthy wasn’t given the memo that everyone wants her in the Gilmore Girls revival and would do anything to accommodate her. Meanwhile, if you want to get involved, there’s a lot of angry Sookie fans on Twitter you can yell with, or there’s a Change.org petition you can sign if you want to see Melissa McCarthy return to Stars Hollow to play everyone’s favorite Sookie.